Let's start off by turning it into an equation:
4% x M = 56.
First off, we want to find out what the M is, so we to change the percent into a fraction.
4% = 4/100 so that would be 4/100 x M = 56
Now we need to multiply 100 on both sides. Which makes it:
4 x M = 5600,
So now, we need to isolate the variable, meaning we need to divide both sides by 4:
M = 1,400
So that would be the answer.
